Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOSCOW Walter Graebner, a senior TIME correspondent, just back from six months in Russia and a month with the victorious British Eighth Army in Libya...
LONDON--British tanks were reported only 30 miles from Tripoli today and still advancing swiftly toward the last big Axis base in Libya which Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was believed preparing to abandon without a fight...
...last week, or worked with him at the Embassy, or watched him listen to the President's speech to Congress, have guessed that Lord Halifax had just learned that his youngest son, Lieut. Richard Frederick Wood, 22, had lost both legs when wounded by a Nazi bomb in Libya...
...R.A.F. and U.S. planes. Munitions, gasoline and men moved up in a vast and orderly flow, steadily preparing for General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's next move against Marshal Rommel. U.S. bombers and fighters from Tunisia, approximately 575 miles northwest of the Eighth Army, joined the R.A.F. from Libya in a fierce attack on Tripoli. The Berlin radio interpreted the signs to mean an imminent renewal of the British assault and pursuit in Libya...
Said Lord Phillimore, father of one MRA entertainer: "I would rather discuss my other sons. Two are in the army in Libya. Another has been killed in action...